SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Africa Confidential - Burhan tries to negotiate after coup falters

4/11/2021: Africa Confidential -  Burhan tries to negotiate after coup falters

After failing to build civilian support the coup, Africa Confidential (AC) suggest that army commander-in-chief Abdulfattah al-Burhan’s attempts to build a political force by re-integrating Islamists suggests “a lack of planning even among al-Burhan’s inner circle”.

AC cite the release and re-arrest of - Ibrahim Ghandour (head of the former ruling National Congress Party [NCP]), Mohamed Hamid Tabidi and al-Shazly Maddeh (National Intelligence and Security Services), and Mohamed al-Jizuli, an ISIS supporter.

AC note the arrest of Deputy Director of the Central Bank, Farouk Kambrisi, “allegedly for not signing a transfer of funds to a company owned by the military,” with Abdelbasit Hamza, a businessman who managed the NCP's biggest companies, released.

AC also note that al-Burhan wants to disband the Tamkeen committee that retrieved illicitly-gained assets tied of the former regime, with “some reconstituted form of investigation and assets search [potentially] part of negotiations to restructure the transitional institutions.”